Title:
Structural foundations manual for low-rise buildings
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Publication Information:
London : Chapman & Hall, 1993
ISBN:
9780419179405
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Summary
Summary
This book is a practical guide to the design of foundations for housing and other low-rise buildings with an emphasis on practical, buildable solutions to foundation problems, especially on abnormal or poor ground.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Examples |
| 1 Site Investigations |
| 1.1 Walk-over survey |
| 1.2 Desk Study |
| 1.3 Site Investigation: Field work |
| 1.4 Site investigation procedure |
| 1.5 Interpretation of laboratory testing |
| 1.6 Solution features |
| Case study: Investigation of former miming site, Sheffield |
| 2 Foundation design |
| 2.1 Introduction |
| 2.2 Widened reinforced strip footings |
| 2.3 Reiforced strip footings on replacement granular fill |
| 2.4 Trench fill foundations |
| 2.5 Raft foundations |
| 2.6 Pad and pier foundation |
| 2.7 Piled foundations |
| Bibliography |
| 3 Foundations in cohesive soils |
| 3.1 Introductions |
| 3.2 Settlement in cohesive soils |
| 3.3 Consolidation settlement |
| 3.4 Moisture movements |
| 4 Foundations in sands and gravels |
| 4.1 Classification of sands and gravels |
| 4.2 Construction problems in granular soils |
| 4.3 Foundation design in granular soils |
| 4.4 Plate bearing tests |
| 4.5 Piling into sands and gravel strata |
| Bibliography |
| 5 Building in mining localities |
| 5.1 Coal mining, past and present |
| 5.2 coal shafts |
| 5.3 Shallow mineworkings |
| 5.4 Drilling investigations |
| 5.5 Stabilizing old workings |
| 5.6 Foundations in areas with shallow workings |
| 5.7 Active mining |
| 5.8 Future mining |
| 5.9 Mitigating the events of mining subsidence |
| Bibliography |
| 6 Sites with trees |
| 6.1 Foundation design |
| 6.2 Building on wooded sites |
| 6.3 Precautions to take when there is evidence of clay desiccation |
| 6.4 foundations in granular strata overlying shrinkable clays |
| Bibliography |
| 7 Developing on sloping sites |
| 7.1 stability of slopes |
| 7.2 Developing on sloping sites |
| 7.3 retaining systems |
| 7.4 Designing retaining walls |
| 7.5 Cantilevered retaining walls |
| 7.6 Damp-proofing to retaining walls |
| Bibliography |
| 8 Building on filled ground |
| 8.1 Opencast coal workings |
| 8.2 Foundations |
| 8.3 Suspended ground-floor construction |
| 8.4 Compaction of fills to an engineered specification |
| 8.5 Ground improvement techniques |
| 8.6 Compaction of structural fills |
| Bibliography |
| 9 Ground improvement |
| 9.1 Vibro-compaction techniques |
| 9.2 Dynamic consolidation |
| 9.3 preloading using surcharge materials |
| 9.4 improving soils by chemical or grout injection |
| Bibliography |
| 10 Building up to existing buildings |
| 10.1 Site investigation |
| 10.2 Foundation types |
| 10.3 Underpinning |
| 10.4 Shoring |
| Bibliography |
| 11 Contaminated land |
| 11.1 Contaminated sites |
| 11.2 UK Policy on contaminated land |
| 11.3 Risk assessment |
| 11.4 Industrial process |
| 11.5 Landfill sites |
| 11.6 desk study |
| 11.7 site investigation |
| Case study |
| Bibliography |
